In front of the iron gate in the B14 living area, there is a large iron sign with Chinese, Japanese and English labels.
From its dense rust and weathered traces, the words "Sixteenth Iron Works·Building for Cadres' and Family Members" can be vaguely discerned.
Jiang Xueming took out his cell phone and took a round of photos of the building's main body, guard booths, mail warehouse, stadium, public canteen, recreation room and bathhouse.
Then he changed direction and photographed the water tower and city vistas on the hilly highlands of Area B15.
In the family building of the ironworks, other functional facilities are marked in Chinese, Japanese and English. Like the iron plate on the gate, it is also consistent with the language used by Chief Nanami - it seems that people living in B14 area also
These three languages should be in use, and the race will not be too different.
"You two." Chief Nanami took out three yellow plastic dust-proof cloaks from the weapon bag. "Put this on and hide the gun. Don't let the residents see the gun. They will associate it with the gun."
[Death]—understand?”
Nanami spoke Japanese, which Jiang Xueming didn't understand, but he could understand the rough meaning from the other person's body language. He took the initiative to take the dust-proof cloak and hid all the weapons on his body.
As Xing put on his cape, he pointed at a large merchant in the family building, "Jessica, I saw the McDonald's sign! Can I buy a spicy McChicken?"
"No!" Nanami took out a bullet-proof folding knife from her weapon bag, "Everything here must be obeyed by me! I didn't say you can come in, so you absolutely can't come in."
She pressed the button of the folding knife and popped out the shiny blade, pretending to be ferocious but not scary at all.
"Understand?!"
Jiang Xueming didn't understand a word of the Japanese words that came out of Commander Nanami's mouth. He thought the commander was about to issue a knife, so he carefully took the yellow spring folding knife into his hand and tried the high-pressure steel yellow one.
Reliability, after playing with it several times, I finally felt relieved, folded the knife, and put it into MOLLE's chest plate.
"Understood!" Bu Liuxing stood at attention and saluted, looking like a good baby.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Nanami folded her arms, looking satisfied: "This makes sense! Very good! Very energetic!"
"Sir Jessica!" Axing still maintained the saluting posture: "If you can't buy spicy chicken, can you buy a Big Mac?!"
"No!" Nanami was a little crazy. She took out another folding knife and slashed the greedy Ah Xing a few times in the air, as if to vent her anger: "You two are sent by the BOSS.
A comedian?"
"Relax..." Jiang Xueming then carefully took the second knife from Nanami's hand, folded it and threw it to Ah Xing, "He has always been like this, sir, he will ask you later.
A most important question..."
Bu Liuxing speaks righteously, like a new recruit in training, and his tone is serious. When asked, it makes no sense: "McChicken is not allowed! Big Mac is not allowed! So, sir, what is your zodiac sign?"
"All Right..." Nanami didn't want to say anything else. She wrapped triangular bandages on both of her arms, and then wrapped bandages on Jiang Xueming's arms.
"Is this simple arm guard used to deal with pets in the nursing home?" Xueming looked at the layers of bandages and gauze on the arm, which slowly turned into a strong and exquisite armor under the skillful hands of Chief Nanami.
She ran to wrap Bu Liuxing's arms again and answered in Chinese.
"Kevlar, hand cutting, stab-proof clothing, too heavy. Bandages! Cheap! Easy to use!"
These protective measures have been completed.
Chief Nanami took deep breaths repeatedly, finally pursed her lips and took the lead into the courtyard of the family building with a serious face.
"Follow me, let's go back to the staff dormitory first and put down your extra luggage."
Bu Liuxing provided simultaneous translation for Xueming.
The two of them followed Chief Nanami closely and rushed into the compound.
Under the illumination of artificial ultraviolet headlights, the L-shaped family building looks strange——
——This kind of weirdness is not indescribable, but weird that Jiang Xueming can describe in words.
He followed closely behind the officer, leading from the cement road in the courtyard to the parking apron.
An uncle poked out from the security guard box behind him. He looked like he was a resident here. He was not wearing a police security uniform, only water-resistant and oil-resistant overalls.
The uncle tilted his head, as if he heard the three people breaking into the door, and immediately came out and shouted a Japanese phrase.
"Welcome back."
"You're welcome!" Nanami responded and continued walking forward.
Then Jiang Xueming saw the car parked in the yellow line frame.
Most of them are family cars of Ryota (Honda, Toyota) brands, but most of them have been turned into scraps by the polish of time.
The metal parts of these cars have completely turned into rusted scrap iron. Large areas of peeling paint can be seen on the side doors and front hoods, exposing the rotten base materials, and the rubber tires have become flat.
He smelled a strong fishy smell, but it was not blood - he had smelled it when he was in the factory. It was the smell of oxidized, rusty and dampened steel, which was very similar to blood.
Further ahead, there are still people active in the stadiums on both sides.
On the right side was the tennis court. Jiang Xueming counted carefully and found that there were nine people active in the court.
Four young people, both men and women, were playing tennis - no, perhaps simply swinging the racket.
They were holding non-perishable polymer rackets in their hands. The metal mesh on top had long been completely rusted. The handles of the rackets were still stained with age.
Just by waving again and again, it seemed as if a tennis ball was really flying across the empty cloth net.
Among the remaining five people, two referees sat on two high chairs with cloth nets respectively, and whistled from time to time to remind the four people on the field——
——Their expressions are very vivid and lively. It's like cheering for the athletes and turning over the non-existent "scoreboard" again and again.
The last three people are a family of three.
Passing by the stadium, Jiang Xueming could hear their conversation and see their faces through the grid fence covered with rust and ivy.
Xueming can also get responses when taking photos.
The two brothers and sisters who were playing basketball each had their own reactions, or they were not used to being in the limelight in front of the camera, so they waved their hands awkwardly.
There are also people who are jumping up and down happily, trying to leave the most beautiful freeze-frame picture.
Then I heard the murmurs of the family of three, which was a Japanese-speaking couple and a little boy of eight or nine years old.
Bu Liuxing leaned next to Xueming and translated simultaneously in a super low voice.
"Husband, that's a new face. He came with Teacher Nanami."
"That's great! He looks like Teacher Nanami, a very energetic young man!"
"Mom, when I grow up, can I be as tall and strong as that brother? He is like a mountain!"
The child here is talking about Ah Xing——
——A Xing’s height of 1.9 meters, which is as tall as a sky tree, will indeed make children envious.
"What is this kid thinking about!~ Our family doesn't have that much money to buy calcium tablets! If you want to grow so tall, I'm afraid you have to go to the ground."
"Mom, do you think so too? Can't I grow that tall?"
"Although it will make you sad to say it - my baby, I'm afraid you have to go to the ground to bask in the real sun. You can't stop for a moment and keep jumping, just like brothers and sisters playing tennis.
Can you grow so tall? Look at that brother..."
Ah Xing felt a little embarrassed when he translated this, which made people blush with embarrassment.
"Look at that brother, he must be unable to stop all the time and drink a lot of milk to grow so tall, right?"
"I don't like drinking milk...but I can't stop! Mom! I can jump and jump all the time!"
"My stupid son!~ I'm afraid you will never be as tall as that tall guy in your whole life. After all, your father and I are only so tall!~"
"Husband! What's with that smug look on your face? That kind of attitude is really the worst kind of person! It's too much! It's really too much to talk about this kind of thing with your children!"
Then the child started crying, and the wife began to beat her husband, unwilling to say bad words in front of the child. In the end, the couple comforted the child together, and that was the end of the matter.
Bu Liuxing didn't say anything else in the end, and the three of them walked out of the stadium.
On the other side are eight table tennis tables, with more people, including men, women and children who are active, and people who are doing warm-up exercises next to the tables and preparing to take turns.
There were also spectators who were shouting loudly on the sidelines. They looked red in the face, slapped their empty cigarette cases on the water meter box, placed heavy bets on their favorite players, and would often shout out advice from a distance.
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Jiang Xueming can describe all these abnormalities in words.
The instruments in the hands of these people looked like newly unearthed cultural relics, but their bodies were filled with indescribable vitality - as if they did not belong to this era.
Even in Jiang Xueming's hometown in Hengyin City or in Hung Hom - he has never seen such a [lively] community.
In the slow pace of life in his hometown, he once delivered milk tea to the Binh Duong Agricultural University campus a few years ago. The stadium has long been kept in a state of grass - most students hide in the dormitory, blowing on the air conditioner and playing with their mobile phones.
Old people gather in groups to invite their friends to drink tea and play cards. The middle-aged and young people are all thinking about how to make money from their careers or how to make money from others.
Later I went to Hung Hom, and that city was busier, more crowded, and more lifeless.
Even though he often goes to Saint Maid High School to visit his sister, the school still feels like a harsh menopausal old aunt, not lively at all.
Occasionally, I can see a few younger brothers and sisters in the corridor of the school building after class. Once I talk about the future, such as this month’s exams, next month’s vacation, and next year’s plans, these younger brothers and sisters immediately sink in when talking about these.
I feel down, I can't be happy anymore.
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After gathering my thoughts and sorting them out, I returned to the family building of the ironworks in front of me.
Jiang Xueming could feel it - everything here seemed to be full of the flavor of youth, just like the sun at eight or nine in the morning.
Entering the corridor, although the facilities here are old, they are still clean, as if someone has been cleaning them.
But after a while, an old aunt came up and took Nanami's arm.
"Teacher Nana! Nana is beautiful!" The old aunt spoke in Chinese, very anxious and anxious: "You promised to bring me a broom when you come back this time. My broom cannot be repaired...
What can I do without tools? I have been picking up rubbish with my hands for the past half month. I am old! This is useless. I clean the bathrooms and canteen on the first floor. If these places become dirty,
Are there still people living in this building? It must stink to death..."
Speaking of [death]——
——The old aunt was suddenly stunned for a moment, as if she had been struck by lightning.
Nanami's expression changed drastically. She immediately grabbed her aunt's wrist and explained quickly: "Broom! I brought it. Here it is for you. Wait, wait, wait! Wake up! Wake up!"
The old aunt finally woke up, scratched her gray hair, thanked her, and glanced at the two strange young men beside Nanami.
"Hello, I am the cleaner of this building... Do you want to live here too?"
"No..." Bu Liuxing was about to say.
Chief Nanami winked fiercely.
"It's not what you think!~" Ah Xing immediately changed his mind: "Auntie~ We were called by Chief Nanami to accompany her. She didn't say how long we would stay..."
The old aunt looked at the two passengers with confusion at first, then regained her enthusiasm: "Which floor do you... live on? If anything happens, you can call me if you want to clean, and I will arrange someone for you."
Nanami immediately replied in broken Chinese: "They and I live in the same room."
The old aunt didn't understand this complicated triangle relationship for a while, so she only responded, "Ah... let's live in the same room?"
"Ah yes!" Bu Liuxing responded.
Jiang Xueming said nothing.
Nanami nodded vigorously.
When the cleaner walked away, he turned back and shouted: "Teacher Nanami! Remember to give me the broom. There are a lot of fallen leaves in the yard. My waist is not good, so I only picked up half of them. You must remember!"
"Okay!" Nanami breathed a sigh of relief, but was worried privately - she didn't remember this at all, and it would probably be difficult for the cleaning lady to ask her questions later.
Far away, I heard the cleaning lady cooing in a low voice, and secretly took a few more glances at Xueming's pants.
"When did the station have such cowherds... I'm so envious of today's young people."
When Nanami heard the cynical tone of the cleaning lady - her expression became very wonderful.
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At this time, Jiang Xueming looked around, ran to the poplar tree in the courtyard and broke off a lot of twigs to use as wood. He rummaged through his bag, took out a bunch of steel ropes, and made a broom from the materials on the spot.
In just two minutes - Nanami was shocked by this operation.
When she got the broom, she saw the solid steel cable skeleton inside the broom, which looked like it could be used for a long, long time.
"Oh! You did a good job! You did a good job!" Nanami held the broom in one hand and slapped Jiang Xueming on the shoulder with the other. The force of her hand made Xueming tremble.
After watching her run to hand the broom to the cleaning lady, she finally returned to the corridor with peace of mind and continued to climb up.
Xueming had more questions in her mind.
When no one was around, he finally asked: "Sir Jessica, why do these people call you teacher?"
"I have said before that I give children extra lessons and homework. They think I am a teacher from outside." Nanami explained in Japanese: "I often bring new things in, such as vacuum cleaners and newspapers, peeling fruits
Peelers, snacks and so on. They learned singing from me, very, very fashionable songs, and they kept calling me teacher.”
After Bu Liuxing finished translating, Jiang Xueming saw from the window that on the other side of the L-shaped corridor was a small kindergarten called Yingying Kindergarten. There were children in class and kindergarten teachers taking care of them. There were only five or six people in total.
Through the window grille, he took pictures of all this with his mobile phone, thinking in his mind - it seems that this journey is not as dangerous as he thought.
Arriving at Room 411 on the fourth floor——
——When Chief Nanami took out the key and opened the door.
Jiang Xueming and Bu Liuxing discussed in private and whispered.
"Axing, what do you think of this place?"
"McDonald's is open on the first floor, but I can't buy the fragrant chicken. Please give it a bad review."
"Be more serious."
"It feels weird, Brother Ming. I feel really weird...it's so weird that I shudder."
"How can I see it?"
"I am a post-00s generation. Brother Ming, are you also a post-00s generation? I feel that everything here is... very strange. I have only seen it in documentaries... It seems like... I have entered the set of an old movie.
——It’s like going back to the Showa era and boarding the [Merry-go-round of life]. My mom told me about that era, when everything was prosperous and everyone worked with enthusiasm.”
"You're right. It's hard for me to understand all this. There seems to be a very strong feeling in them..."
"It's vitality, vitality that can't stop for a moment. Whether it's a child or an adult, grandparents or uncles and aunts, just now I saw a very cute little corgi, it was circling like crazy on the table tennis table.
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"Why?"
"I have had a dog before, but no one walked the dog. It would play with itself, otherwise it would like to tear down the house and have nowhere to release its energy."
"That's not strange..."
"It's weird! It's so weird! That little Corgi is so cute! I can see it very clearly. It's biting its own dog leash, as if the owner... is still there..."
Speaking of this, Ah Xing broke through his defense in a second and burst into tears.
Nanami seemed to be suffering from dementia. She tried the keys one after another, and it took a lot of effort to open the dormitory door.
She turned around and saw the stupid big passenger sobbing.
"What's up with him?"
Jiang Xueming handed Bu Liuxing a tissue: "It's an old problem. Please understand."
Ah Xing still looked hurt: "No! You don't understand! Look at that dog, how cute it is! How it wants someone to walk it! How can you understand?! You cold
Faced Demon Man!"
Xueming didn't pay attention to Ah Xing, but handed over a pack of tissues as usual. Then he looked into the dormitory and was mentally prepared.
——Then he returned to Bu Liuxing and almost cried with Ah Xing.
But he endured it. After all, when Bai Lu was sick, he was in so much trouble and he broke down so much without crying. His dignity cannot be compromised in such a place.
When he saw Commander Nanami's dormitory, it couldn't be described as a hell on earth, at least it was on the level of an eternal injustice, full of stories - making people angry but not complaining about their misfortune.
Xueming couldn't bear to look directly at the entrance hall of the main reception hall alone. In order to save some space, I won't go into details.
Originally, Chief Nanami said that the office would be a little more decent than the dormitory for meeting guests.
Regarding what the dormitory was like, Jiang Xueming thought that she was mentally prepared and thought that the emotions would not be so strong.
——When he looked directly at this house, he couldn't imagine how a person could live in such an environment.
It took him twenty minutes to clean Commander Nanami's office last time, but it took him a full hour to clean the dormitory this time.
If you want to stay in this environment for several days - before any crazy butterfly comes, he will skip the infection process and go crazy directly.
After Jiang Xueming cleaned up everything, Bu Liuxing also cleaned up his emotions.
Chief Nanami asked the two of them to bring the necessary equipment and prepare to go to the first house to conduct investigation.
"I'm talking about necessary equipment." Nanami looked -
——Jiang Xueming held a P90 in his hand, a G26 on his waist, and a sword-shaped stick on his back. He took out four small compressed gas GAS cylinders from the bag and prepared a homemade incendiary bomb using flammable air conditioning refrigerant.
Several cans of refrigerant were almost confiscated. If it weren't for the security check at the station, he would have planned to bring more convenient liquor over 60 degrees as raw materials.
Looking at Bu Liuxing again, he took out two bags of Want Want gift bags from the bag, carrying six boxes of Hung Hom Bakery’s local Hung Hom Bakery’s Pure Milk Emperor Egg Tarts, and holding the stereo with his other hand. He also muttered, “It’s a pity that milk and eggs will not be available overnight.”
"It's fresh".
At that time, Nanami almost turned into a berserk cartoon emoticon and went crazy.
"I'm talking about necessary equipment!"
What Bu Liuxing was thinking about was how to make friends with these [outlaws]. As long as he became good friends, there would be no danger, right?
"That's right..."
Jiang Xueming had just figured out how to make a simple design for delayed ignition of the air-conditioning refrigerant cylinder, and what he was thinking about was how to make friends with the [Desperado]. As long as he became good friends, there would be no danger.